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14507465 No.14507465 [Reply] [Original]

Do you use novelty bookmarks?

>> No.14507560
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>>14507465
bookmark? what's a bookmark?

>> No.14507576

>>14507560
Abselutely disgusting

>> No.14507580

>>14507560
based

>> No.14507605

I use a magnet with Van Gogh's painting on it.

>> No.14507618

>>14507560
nice

>> No.14507779

>>14507465
No, I exclusively purchase Everyman's Library clothbounds which come with ribbon bookmarks sewn in.

>> No.14507838

i use a piece of toilet paper

>> No.14507911

>>14507465
I just remember the page number.

>> No.14507965

>>14507560
Barbarous.

>> No.14507987

>>14507560
Don't let them bully u anon.

Your books your choice

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>>14507465

>> No.14508003

I use an MTG card that fits thematically with the book I'm reading

>> No.14508006

>>14508003
Which card do you use when you're reading your Bible?

>> No.14508018

>>14508006
I don't but what comes to mind is Wrath of God, but I usually use cheap commons that I don't mind damaging

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>>14508018
Very based

>> No.14508718

If you cant pick up the book and find where you left of without a physical marker you must not have been paying any attention to the book in the first place

>> No.14508725

>>14507465
I use a memory palace to remember.
Makes me feel good.

>> No.14509036

>>14508718
Not everyone has this autistic superpower anon

>> No.14509112

>>14507838
based, my nigga

>> No.14509134

>>14508018
What book/card combo do you have on the go now? And what do you think of post Theros mtg? Imo, Khans of Tarkir is where the game really started to stink

>> No.14509149

>>14507987
It's a library book.

>> No.14509177

I just lay the book open om the page I’m on

>> No.14509186

i use train tickets or concert tickets or postcards

>> No.14509341

>>14508718
>He reads the page number aloud before turning the page
Autistic and based

>> No.14509348

I just rip out the pages I completed

>> No.14509461

>>14509149
Oh lord...

>> No.14509466

>>14507998
lol

>> No.14509495

>>14507465
$100 bill for me

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>>14509348

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>>14507465
>not using an e-reader

>> No.14509576

sticky notes are the chad bookmark

>> No.14509597
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I use cards from a Spanish deck that are abandoned in my room because I don't know how to play any games with them. Heh

>> No.14509607

i use polaroids of my cats

>> No.14509615

i use the dirt and grease stain on the edge of the page to show me where i left off reading

>> No.14509637

>>14507465
wtf ew no.
>>14507560
only thing worse.

>> No.14509650

I use my umbilical cord given to me by my mother when she disowned me.

>> No.14509812

i just use a little bit of poop to mark the pages

>> No.14510033

>>14508003
I do the same. I have lots of them and they can be conversation starters.

>>14509134
My combo right now is Augustus and Death Watch

>> No.14510044

>>14509549
Low tier bait

>> No.14510321

Been using some loose old marks and playing cards, but I got some illustrated bird bookmarks online recently.
Can't believe how expensive they try to sell bookmarks for in stores. They must be about $.30 a piece, no need to mark them up a few dollars.

>> No.14510354

I use just a paper slip

>> No.14510365

I use my winning lottery ticket

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>>14507465
I've got maybe a dozen of the branded card bookmarks Blackwells send out with books ordered from them. Super handy.

>>14507560
disgraceful
>>14507605
one of those flat flexible fridge magnets?
>>14507779
doesn't that limit the titles you're able to buy? have you ever paid to get a book rebound? I did that once. wasn't worth it. why spend money on binding that could be used to buy 3 or 4 more books?
>>14507911
>>14508718
underrated
>>14508003
must be reading utter shit then
>>14509177
almost as bad as page folding anon.
>>14509186
have done this a lot in the past
>>14510365
I find the paper lottery tickets and betting slips are printed on too thin and not substantial enough.

>> No.14510520

>>14510409

Huh. I have the same bookmark. I got it in a book at the British museum. Didn't know the bookstore existed. Thought it was just a novelty

>> No.14510534

>>14510520
I don't think Blackwell's fulfill their online retail all from their old Broad Street shop.
I'm not even sure how they're actually able to keep stock of as much as they do, or what arrangements they have with publishers. I've used them for the last year or so and have bought dozens of books through them with no hitch, fast shipping on titles I wasn't able to find elsewhere, especially after amazon decided to delist all of Dugin's books.
Fuckin adios to amazon anyway, fuck Bezos and his sketchy tax avoidance and employment practices, I hope Musk wins the space race 2.0

>> No.14510789

>>14510534
I get the impression that Blackwell's isn't much better.
A British bookshop that doesn't sell anything by David Irving , is making a statement

>> No.14511093

>>14507560
Off yourself

>> No.14511098

>>14507560
what a chad

>> No.14511114

>>14507465
no and i avoid anyone who does

>> No.14511186

>>14509134
The Iliad and a Favored Hopilite.
I haven't really played much since around when Khan's finished, at least o haven't kept up with the sets. I mostly only play edh and don't care at all about standard. Theros was a great block tho.

>> No.14511304

>>14510789
Very few book retailers do.
I met Irving once, to pick up a copy of his book Hess: The Missing Years.
He pulled up in this massive car, popped into the bank, and then took me over to the pub across the road and bought me a half pint (he offered a pint but I asked for a half because Scotland has a draconian drink drive BAC limit), and we had a brief chat about Hess, although he admitted he didn't know of any specific underlying beliefs Hess held which drove him to make his flight to Scotland.

Irving is an interesting guy. He may come across as awkward or abrasive to some, and he'll readily admit his personal prejudices. However, he's anything but intellectually dishonest, and I have faith in the rigour with which he pursues his historical research.
He continues to believe history ought to exonerate Hitler to a greater degree than I personally agree with - Hitler, Goebbels,Streicher et al certainly made the seed-bed fertile for the likes of Himmler to pursue their ambitions. Nevertheless, the lampooning and haranguing he has suffered for shedding light, adding detail and bringing nuance to a chapter of history which has been mythologised for perpetual and only spuriously related contemporary political aims, is unjust.

>> No.14512253

>>14511304

I appreciate the anecdote, anon. I'm a little jealous. I'd love a conversation with the man.

He comes off as honest. I've always enjoyed his books.
Odd how he was the ,"foremost historian", on the second world war , untill he quibbled over numbers.

Now, he's persona non grata